| Acronym | Meaning |
| PFNA | Pulsed Fast-neutron Analysis |
| AFBC | Atmospheric Fluidized Bed Combustion |
| CELIA | Competitive Enzyme-Linked Immunoassay |
| MC-ICPMS | Multiple-collector Inductively Coupled Plasma-mass Spectrometry |
| QSEX | Quadrature Selective Excitation |
| HETE | High Energy Transient Explorer |
| NWRI | National Water Research Institute (Burlington |
| SDBS | Sodium Dodecylbenzenesulfonate |
| RBCODUR | Readily Biodegradable Chemical Oxygen Demand Uptake Rate |
| CHFET | Complementary Heterojunction Field-effect Transistor |